Layoffs, millions in budget cuts coming to SIUC - Brandon Merano, WSIL

Despite some stopgap funding, SIU Carbondale will cut more than $20 million from its budget. To do that the university will lay off 17 faculty and permanently eliminate 155 vacant positions and 125 graduate assistantships. "It puts us in a very difficult situation over the long term," said Interim Morris Library Dean Howard Carter. Even with the temporary budget, SIU will only get 60 percent of its expected state funding over the past two years. That worries students http://www.wsiltv.com/story/32377464/layoffs-millions-in-budget-cuts-coming-to-siuc